The Impact of Pre-Marital Counseling on Marital Satisfaction: Implication for pastoral counseling
Marriage requires preparation to avoid marital problems. Since eight years in the South Kerala Diocese (SKD) of the Church of South India(CSI), marriage preparation course is mandatory to those who are getting married. Since it has been observed that, pre-marital preparation is significantly associated with marital satisfaction, the study intends to investigate the impact of premarital counseling/preparation on marital satisfaction as well as its pastoral counseling implication. The study aims to find out the impact of gender, age, occupation, educational qualification number of children, family income, parental involvement, family outing, social activities, duration of married life, geographical location and it also measures premarital content comprehension test in terms of biblical understanding of marriage, psychological understanding of marriage, physiological or sexual understanding of marriage, communication skills, conflict management, parenting or child rearing, finance management and distribution of roles with marital satisfaction.